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Race: Black - White - Red – Yellow - Brown: Does Race Matter?

If you have been following the democratic primary election you might be inclined to a perception that race does play a role on the choices people make. According to a Fox News Alert posted on the radio the day after the North Carolina and Indiana primaries reported that 90% of the registered black population in North Carolina voted for Barrack Hussein Obama and in Indiana white blue collar factory workers and white middle aged women voted for Hillary Clinton.

This type of demographic outcome in a free election indicates an implied reflection that free people when given the liberty of choice will gravitate toward their own kind and/or to what they associate their perception of who they are like. If this is a true reflection of free will based on racial, ethnic or the association of similar ideology as preference of an individual, then we can assume that the same behavior will play out when it comes to other choices the individual will make creating non-diversity in the general public and society makes as a whole based on freedom.

The question to ask ourselves today is; has true diversity been achieved if we as a person or people of free will choose to gravitate toward housing areas with demographics populated with people similar to us in race and background?

The choices we make when we choose a particular community or township over another based on demographics that represent who we are as an individual in areas populated with people similar to us in race and background skews demographic diversity. This however isn’t illegal.

If we look into our past you’ll find many communities originally had restrictions based solely on racial, ethnic as well as religious guidelines to include or exclude a particular group or groups of people. i.e. (Whites only or Blacks not allowed or no Jews or no Catholics). Restrictions and others rules and regulations of the same effect amount to discrimination. These types of guidelines are illegal today.

It took Congress to pass The Civil Rights and Fair Housing act of 1968 to change the practice of controlled discrimination where housing opportunity is denied by one group toward another.

So what happens to our neighborhoods when we elect to congregate with like kind groups of people and it creates an unintentional segregation in the community? (Unintentional in the fact that these associations are by choice and of free liberty.)

A Situation in housing like this, creates an imbalance of diversity by group types.

This imbalance is the whole point of this blog. The result is unintentional redlining.

 My next blog I’ll describe a situation where a banking institution was accused of redlining because of business decisions based on things other than reason outlined in the civil rights and fair housing act of 1968.

Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act) prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of dwellings based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Title VIII was amended in 1988 (effective March 12, 1989) by the Fair Housing Amendments Act, which:

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